Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happy-go-lucky migrant workers in the flimsy canvas-topped truck were a typical grab-bag assortment from among the 12,000 Deep South Negro laborers who annually sweep northward with the spring to range through North Carolina. It was green-bean-picking time, and this Florida-recruited group had spent some three weeks in the state sweating through the day to feed the canneries, bedding down at night like nomads-men, women and children-in a temporary camp near Mount Olive. Now, en route from the camp to the fields at Dunn, they were rocking along nine miles from...
...five o'clock one afternoon last week, two stocky figures in ill-fitting topcoats and battered felt hats stepped out of a shabby green railway coach onto the red-carpeted platform of Helsinki Station. After an exchange of platitudes with Finnish Premier V. J. Sukselainen, resplendent in top hat and cutaway, the elder of the two visitors shouted out a greeting to a Finnish army honor guard. Like well-drilled children in an old-fashioned schoolroom, the soldiers chorused back: "Hyvaapaivaa, Herra Paaminesteri-Good day, Mr. Prime Minister." For the first time since their visit to Britain more than...
...full field kit and mottled grey-green camouflage battle dress, 28 men of West Germany's 19th Airborne Battalion marched through heavy spring rains one morning last week to the bank of the deceptively calm Iller River, just outside the Swabian city of Kempten. Commanding the platoon was a tough but well-liked Stabsoberjäger (staff sergeant) named Peter Julitz, 24. At the river's edge Platoon Leader Julitz made a quick decision: "We're going to ford the river," he told his men. "In battle, the bridge might be out, and we'd have...
...process of law. Faced with such tedious proceedings, Minister Verwoerd let it be known that the 410 families of the tribe were themselves quite ready and willing to go. But when Verwoerd's trucks arrived last week, the Mamatola refused to budge. Standing barefoot in a faded green sweater among his councilors, the aging chief of the tribe gazed about him helplessly. "The government tells me I must move," he said, "but my people want to stay on in their mountain home. Let them take away our plows and our stock, if that is the trouble, but leave...
...palms." Will he continue in TV after his costly ($270,000), four-week stint for ABC? "If we can get some institutional sponsors, such as a bank or steel company. And if I can find more of an inner sense of direction toward the medium-that is, get a green light from the Lord...